Acquisition Proposal

  1. Analysis
    1. Analysis of Company A. Present your data and analysis of Company A. Include the following in your analysis:
      1. Balanced scorecard data: Share the balanced scorecard for Company A. Copy and paste the relevant sections from your Milestone One spreadsheet. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:
        1. Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most impactful key performance indicators.
          1. Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
        2. Internal processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant KPIs.
          1. Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
        3. Customers/market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant KPIs.
          1. Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
        4. Learning and growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant KPIs.
          1. Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
      2. Balanced scorecard analysis: Describe your analysis of Company As performance based on its balanced scorecard components. Perform a cost-benefit-risk analysis to explain whether the benefits justify the costs of acquisition.
        1. Opportunity cost: What will it cost to move forward with this opportunity?
        2. Risk: Identify and explain the magnitude (low, medium, or high) of the risks this acquisition poses to the parent company related to its market, financial, cultural, and operational environments.
    2. Analysis of Company B. Present your data and analysis of Company B. Include the following in your analysis:
      1. Balanced Scorecard Data: Share the balanced scorecard of Company B and highlight some key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share. Copy and paste the relevant sections from your Milestone One spreadsheet. The balanced scorecard should highlight key performance indicators, such as net profit, annual growth, and market share, and include the four components:
        1. Financial: Complete the financial section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most impactful key performance indicators.
          1. Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
        2. Internal processes: Complete the internal processes section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
          1. Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
        3. Customers/market: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant two key performance indicators.
          1. Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
        4. Learning and growth: Complete the customers/market section of the balanced scorecard template, identifying two of the most relevant key performance indicators.
          1. Explain your rationale for the KPIs chosen, along with the cause-and-effect relationship between the chosen KPIs.
      2. Balanced scorecard analysis: Perform a cost-benefit-risk analysis for Company B based on its balanced scorecard components to explain whether the benefits justify the costs of acquisition.
          1. Opportunity cost:What will it cost to move forward with this opportunity?
          2. Risk: Identify and explain the magnitude (low, medium, or high) of the risks this acquisition poses to the parent company as related to its market, financial, cultural, and operational environments.
  2. Proposal
    1. Recommendation: Recommend whether TransGlobal Airlines should acquire one or both companies.
    2. Rationale: Justify how your recommendation supports the companys strategic objectives. This includes one or more of its financial, market, competitive, and cultural objectives.
    3. Assumptions: Explain how your acquisition recommendation will impact the companys success in different scenarios:
      1. A worst-case scenariothat considers the most serious outcomes that could occur if anticipated targets and assumptions are dramatically wrong; and
      2. A best-case scenariothat considers outcomes that significantly exceed anticipated targets and assumptions.

Part 2: Executive Summary
Submit a Word document summarizing your analysis and recommendations for both companies.

  1. Situation assessment: Briefly summarize your companys current internal and external business environments and the rationale for acquisition.
  2. Data and analysis: Provide a brief overview of the two airlines under consideration, including your findings and analysis from your balanced scorecards.
  3. Recommendation: Justify your recommendation for the acquisition and explain how it supports the companys objectives.

Requirements: Full length